# What is your favorite Comedy Movie? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [June 14, 2000, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-comedy-movie/22390 "2000-06-14T19:36:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2000, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-comedy-movie/22390/41 "2000-06-15T20:25:22Z")
Oh, kee-rist, this is a hard one. Ten, huh? OK, in no particular order: Million Dollar Legs (1932) Three-Cornered Moon (1933) Dinner at Eight (1933) Palm Beach Story (early '40s) Midnight (1939) Airplane! (1980) Young Frankenstein (1974) It (1927) and for my last two choices, almost any top-flight Buster Keaton and/or Max Linder silent. ---
**Author:** ![vandal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/858c86/32.png) [@vandal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vandal)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2000, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-comedy-movie/22390/42 "2000-06-15T20:46:55Z")
History of the World, Part 1. Clerks. Airplane. Planes, Trains, and Automobiles. Friday. Naked Gun. Dirty Rotten Scoundrels. ---
**Author:** ![Edwardina](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5f8ce5/32.png) [@Edwardina](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Edwardina)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2000, 1:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-comedy-movie/22390/43 "2000-06-16T13:00:42Z")
> [@](#): > > \*\* > Dirty Rotten Scoundrels. > \*\* Good one. Very good. ---
**Author:** ![horowitz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/2acd7d/32.png) [@horowitz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/horowitz)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2000, 1:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-comedy-movie/22390/44 "2000-06-16T13:42:58Z")
A fish called Wanda Mallrats The Accused ---
**Author:** ![PatrickM](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7feea3/32.png) [@PatrickM](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PatrickM)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2000, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-comedy-movie/22390/45 "2000-06-16T19:55:15Z")
I can’t believe I forgot to mention “The In-Laws” - “What a nice picture of President Kennedy. What does this inscription mean, ‘To Vince, At Least We Tried.’” “That refers to the Bay of Pigs.” “You were involved with the Bay of Pigs?!?” “It was my idea!” ---
**Author:** ![monster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@monster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/monster)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2000, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-comedy-movie/22390/46 "2000-06-16T20:02:59Z")
My list, placed quickly in order… 1. Johnny Dangerously 2. The Breakfast Club 3. Dr. Strangelove 4. Airplane 5. Caddyshack 6. Sixteen Candles 7. Planes, Trains, and Automobiles 8. Blazing Saddles 9. The Jerk 10. A Christmas Story ---
**Author:** ![casdave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c6cbf5/32.png) [@casdave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/casdave)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2000, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-comedy-movie/22390/47 "2000-06-16T21:17:16Z")
Naked gun Airplane Blazing saddles - I remember thinking how close to the edge the racism was at the town meeting and that made it even funnier A shot in the dark Life of Brian - I really liked how grotty and rough it made life appear insead of those idealised and heroic Hollywood toga and sandals movies are. I know Laurel and Hardy didn’t do many feature fims but they still crack me up. Dirty rotten scoundrels It’s a mad, mad ,mad , mad world. Cactus Jack What is the name of that spoof western where they are trying to get a shipment of whisky to town before winter sets in and against the wishes of the womens temperance society ? Duck Soup - The bit with the missing mirror is brilliant. Spinal Tap - The movie outcliches every rock cliche there ever was. ---
**Author:** ![Gilligan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e0b2c6/32.png) [@Gilligan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gilligan)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2000, 1:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-comedy-movie/22390/48 "2000-06-18T13:24:27Z")
My top 10: Already mentioned here- Holy Grail Blazing Saddles Ruthless People Clerks Army of Darkness A Fish Called Wanda Animal House Not yet mentioned- Kingpin Back to the Future Bachelor Party [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-comedy-movie/22390.md?page=2)